Back in the day

February 18, 2016
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The other night a friend's teenage daughter showed me a photo of her senior prom dress. You know, what we used to call "gowns."  It was beautiful, bare midriff and...
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I’ve joined the Astronaut Wives Club

July 26, 2015
I was 10 years old when we went into space for the first time and I remember it like it was yesterday. The excitement.  The anxiety at Alan Shephard's welfare. The...
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Things I’m sick of hearing about

July 24, 2015
Donald Trump Deprive a fire of oxygen and it will be snuffed out. Deprive the the bombastic Donald Trump of media coverage and he will disappear into oblivion. Which...
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Musings on Grace and Frankie

June 3, 2015
Jane Fonda is 77. OMG. 77! When did THAT happen? She's playing a 70 year old on our new obsession, the Netflix series, Grace and Frankie, and she is good.  She's...
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Bruce Jenner redux

June 1, 2015
When Bruce Jenner sat down with Diane Sawyer and television cameras to tell the world that he was going through a transgender transition, she was met with compassion and...
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Nothing stays the same

May 20, 2015
Nothing stays the same, and sometimes, that makes us sad.  In that vein, we said goodbye this week to a series that was almost universally loved for its pitch-perfect...
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29 Comments · Blog, Stylin'

Celebrity dirty laundry

March 25, 2015
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This began as a post about film and movies jumping the shark--a term coined years ago to describe the point in the cycle of a TV show where it starts to decline in...
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Did you see Downton Abbey season finale?

March 3, 2015
Pardon me while I dry my tears. I just finished the two-hour Season 5 finale of Downton Abbey and it was everything I'd hoped it would be.  I'll label spoilers later...
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Lessons from Downton Abbey

February 28, 2015
SPOILER ALERT! This post discusses the second last episode, which hints at the season ending. It's coming. The second-to-last-season of Downton Abbey will end this...
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Answering life questions

February 22, 2015
James Lipton is almost 90 now (can you believe it?), but he's still hosting Inside the Actors Studio interviews and I still love the questions he asks of the actors he...
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